Trump Made A GOT Reference So HBO, Arya Stark, George Martin And The Internet Burned Him

Remember when PM Narendra Modi used a Star Wars quote during a concert? People were considerably surprised! But not shocked or disgusted, chiefly because it was in a lighter mood, in informal settings and meant to add a little fun quotient to the evening. But what Donald Trump, President of the United States, recently pulled with a Game of Thrones meme was quite the contrary, and left his people feeling utterly irked.

Yesterday, the POTUS tweeted a kind of poster of himself, with a play on the popular ‘Winter is coming’ catchphrase from Game of Thrones superimposed on it.

The United States has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda! https://t.co/0yuYgpvq5i

For reference, the sanctions refer to the US Government’s annoucement earlier that it will be reimposing new sanctions on Iran, which were discontinued after the 2015 nuclear deal. These new sanctions which are ‘coming’ will cover Iran’s shipping, financial and the extremely critical energy sectors.

While the above news is already high in its shock value, the belittling of the entire issue by using a catchphrase from a popular TV show and proclaiming it in meme format has angered a lot of people.

Twitter unleashed its firebreathing dragon-trolls on the White Walker-ish tweet faster than Daenerys could say ‘Dracarys’.

After all, the people of the United States have had so much practice since Trump became president!

Either I took a shit ton of drugs, or I'm legitimately going crazy, because there's no way that President of the United States just tweeted that. https://t.co/VACQw0Mjj7

Basically, fan or not, everyone just felt really really bad for Game of Thrones at that moment.

Speaking of, HBO was equally, if not more, irked that Donald Trump decided to use a quote of their show to forward such an agenda. And they made sure they siced both fire and ice dragons on the tweet with their own response!